The Kyle Police Department continues to investigate the prank call involving an active shooter that alarmed the Silverado subdivision yesterday, a City spokesperson said today.
“At this time, there is an investigation underway but no other updates are available,” Communications Director Samantha Armbruster said late this afternoon. “No arrests have been made.”
Police responded to a call at 4:02 p.m. Wednesday of an active shooter who was harming individuals inside a home in the 100 block of Brazos Lane and also threatening law enforcement officials. The City issued a shelter-in-place alert to residents in the vicinity and police evacuated persons from homes in the immediate area. However, when officers entered the home in question, no one was found inside.
“Kyle Police believed the call was a hoax attempting to lure law enforcement into the area,” another City spokesperson said yesterday in a prepared statement.
"We train our officers and staff to respond to these active-threat situations in the fastest most efficient way possible because lost time can lead to lost lives,” Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett said in that same prepared statement. “When someone makes a false report of this nature, they are not only wasting the valuable time and resources of our police department, but they are also engaging in a very costly and dangerous prank."
The City stressed that making a false police report is “a criminal offense.”
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